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Final count set to begin today in the British Columbia election
VANCOUVER - Elections BC begins the final count today from last month's provincial election. The independent agency says it has received 662,000 certification envelopes containing absentee or mail-in ...
Nov 06, 2020
After bitter campaign and protracted vote count, clarity could finally come today
PHILADELPHIA - His back against the wall, a frustrated Donald Trump is lashing out, spinning an elaborate conspiracy theory as he tries to maintain his grasp on the presidency. Convinced that Democrat...
Nov 06, 2020
First World War letters shed light on Spanish flu that has parallels with COVID-19
Stirred by the onset of COVID-19, Jacqueline Carmichael combed through faded letters from the First World War for mentions of the Spanish flu, finding haunting similarities to today as lives were chan...
Nov 06, 2020
Biden sees path to 270; Trump attacks election integrity
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to undermine confidence in this week's election against Joe Biden, as the Democrat gained ...
Nov 06, 2020
German police raid homes of people linked to Vienna attacker
BERLIN - German police have raided the homes and businesses of four people linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week. Federal police said Friday that ...
Nov 06, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump fabricates election corruption
WASHINGTON - Citing "horror stories," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabricated accusations Thursday in an audacious attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election. Standing b...
Nov 05, 2020
Asia Today: Court upholds state border closings in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's highest court on Friday upheld a state's border closure and dismissed billionaire businessman Clive Palmer's argument that the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. ...
Nov 05, 2020
Australia inquiry says police should guard hotel quarantine
MELBOURNE, Australia - Overseas travellers should be quarantined in hotels guarded by police, an inquiry into an Australian city's bungled quarantine program reported on Friday. The Victoria state gov...
Nov 05, 2020
Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez wins Silver Slugger Award
Toronto Blue Jays rightfelder Teoscar Hernandez has won a Silver Slugger Award for the first time in his career.The 28-year-old Hernandez broke out as one of the game's top sluggers in the shortened 2...
Nov 05, 2020
Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots
Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying T...
Nov 05, 2020